Winter's Baaaaack!

Woke up this morning to find this...


in the back yard!

About 3 weeks ago, the weather had turned warm, so I tuned up the bike and took it out for an easy 40 km ride along the canal. The temperatures were in the mid-50s (F), and it was all beginning to look like Spring had arrived.

It was a cruel joke... no sooner had the flowers started to push up, and the trees began to form big plump buds, the weather turned cold again. We've had snow on and off for the past 16 days or so, probably amounting to around 8" if it had stayed around.

And here it is, the second day of March, and it's looking more like winter than it ever did in January. The various weather forecasts are saying that we might get 3-4 inches out of this latest storm, and this time it will probably stick for a few days... we've had mostly sub-freezing temperatures for the past week, so it won't melt just from soil heating.

Ah, well, as long as I don't have to drive much in it, I'll enjoy the snow while it lasts!